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Listen to the "Classic" sound of space

Go to wu2wav directoryRun wu2wav.exePlay the generated work_unit.wav

The screenshots:

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Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

That was very resourceful! Nice job it getting it to work again. I used to love just watching that. It was like looking at a fish tank. You knew what it was going to do, but you couldn't stop watching it.

Personally I never used the screen saver. This was back on a Celeron 600 way back near my join date. The very first WU was done with the screen saver enabled and clocked an amazing 117 hours. Through some kind of accident, I discovered that not using the screen saver yielded about 14 hours instead. Never used the screen saver again.

Watching the FFTs be processed in the main application was fun for brief periods of time, then it was back to the everyday tasks.

Of course, the real enthusiasts soon found that the graphical client was a bad idea and switched to the pure text client. The problem was that the graphics took far more CPU time than the workunit.

This is usually much less of a problem with the BOINC screensaver because it uses modern technologies to render the graphics (though it still takes some CPU, obviously). GPU crunchers would be the exception - though I'm not sure that's even possible.
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